help ! boot floppy won`t work

[miles 0]

tryed to install from hdd, after at least ten wasted cd`s. md5 is correct, speed is ok, read some how-to`s , tried cdrwin5/nero6/winoncd and firebuster .. no luck - dll and check md5 again, burned again, no one of three machines would accept a single cd (mandrake, debian, gentoo, rh, jamd .... you name it)

 

then went to make a boot-floppy by taking the hdd.instll.iso - file from rh9.

 

the iso is 1.41mb but won`t match on a 1.44mb floppy, wtf?`???

 

can someone tell me what exactly i need to do to make such a floppy, cause i cannot copy it on a cdrw to boot from, my cd-burner is just not able to.l................ thanx

[miles 0]

ok, found the rawrite to copy that iso to a disk, and found the rh- how-to.

 

still has to sort out my burner-problems..

 

cheers

[danleff 0]

Excuse me if you have tried the following, but they are common errors;

 

1. Use Nero to burn the images.

 

2. Ar you just copying the iso's to the cd, or burning the image in Nero, under the file dropdown menu?

 

3. Is the bios set to boot from the CDR as the first boot option?

 

4. Are you using CDRW media or CDR?

 

5. You need to burn the image at a very low speed, such as 4X or 8X. Burining the image at higher speeds often results in bad burning of ISO images.